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In options I changed 'Use GL Extensions' to Off. When restarted there was no change. When I set it to on again.. 125 fps.

I have never changed this option before or heard of that being an issue. I used new configs and stuff and even reinstalled an OS.  :S

I will try this

switching it to off made no difference, switching it back to on still made no difference :(

Was hoping for 125 fps instead of 40 :(

This was strange because I had the same problem on q3 too. But when I toggled that setting it fixed both OA and q3 although I only channged the setting in OA. Maybe there is some explanation for this, but I cant think of a good one :D

One thing I do get now, is the issue with the gamma going low after when you minimise the screen. When I toggle back to full screen the gamma range seems stuck between 0.1 and 1.. if I set it to 1.1 nothing happens. But if I change r_overbrightbits to 0 it changes to brighter, like my normal display.

I can get 125 with all settings high, but still varies a little on some maps. Have you tried reinstalling drivers and starting oa up with a fresh config? With 40 fps it definately sounds something is wrong rather than a few cvars thats causing such a poor performance. Hope you manage to fix it as I know what it's like. When it went to 30 fps I felt like I had travel sickness when  I seemed to jump all over the place :(

setting extensions off caused fps problems for me with an nvidia 8600.  but it still varied after to some degree with them on.

I think thats the same card as mine. I didn't have any change when I set the extentions 'Off' so I assume they weren't set on.. even though the game said they were on and it showed lots of mumbo jumbo when i clicked info. :S

i have a new card now, 9600 lol

I get 26 fps. If i'm lucky.